Smart phones or no smart phones?

Noor Shafqat
Sep 9, 2018 · 3 min read

Mobile or smart phones have become an important need of the time. Over a decade ago, for carrying out various tasks we had to use laptops, ipads, tablets but with this advanced technology every function can be performed using a single gadget; a smart phone. It has become quite practiceable as we can connect with the world with a slim and handy device. With just a tap, we are taken in a different world.

Be it anyone, either a professional or a person from non-working class, everyone uses the mobile phones to accomplish different tasks. Life has become easier with their use, even stay-at-home people also take benefit from them, online shopping, booking appointments, looking for new recipes, entertainment and what not. Those people who don’t know how to use a smart phone are reckoned as uneducated for education is based on profound use of a smart phone. Surprisingly!

The smart phones have taken over the big machines and it seems as if the whole world is captured in a small device. People don’t only use them for the sake of information but also for linkling with other people. In doing so, this has become an integral element of every house hold. Unfortunately in this scenerio, when people are being benefitted from technology, the worrying factor is that they have entrapped their users and made them their preys. People are unable to think with their own minds and look for even minor suggestions on the smart phone.

We wakeup from sleep with the beep of the smart phone, every activity of the day is executed while using the smart phone. They have not only become the reason of replacing traditional methods of doing any task but they have also become the cause of creating a gap among the members of a family. People now don’t feel the need to talk or share their views with their family members, who are sitting next to them, in fact they like to share their precious views on social media. They dont know whats going on in their surroundings but they do know what is being done around the world by being active on facebook, twitter, watsapp and many more social media sites.

The thing which is most frightening is that, parents are neglecting their children as they are always busy exploring different applications in their mobile phones and spending less quality time with their children. In many cases, the child is also given a mobile phone so that he doesn’t become the cause of interruption for his parents, rather I would say it’s a bribe from his parents. Many parents also hand a smart phone as an incentive to their child, if he isn’t eating his meal properly. Many children become addictive of watching something on the phone while eating. What a child is expected to learn from his parents, he learns that from a smart phone. Unluckily what the smart phone doesn’t teach is manners, morals and ethics but nobody really worries about them.

A child needs attention and proper assistance but he doesn’t get it because his parents consider updating their Facebook status more important. What would happen to such child? It is evident that when he will grow-up, he would be as disassociated from his parents as they are now when he needs them the most. This invention has successfully created a void among parents and their children.

It is usually observed that children who use gadgets more often are nonintellectual and hyper. They tend to believe that they are living in a fake world and whatever waste they are use to of seeing is the real world. Such children don’t have faith in real heroes but they believe in the fictional superheroes.

In this crucial time, not only the parents but everybody in the society should think of limiting their use of smart phones and other gadgets. This would result in a good use of one’s own mental capacity and fresh mind. Children should be encouraged to participate in out-door activities along with their parents so that they get to spend more time together and also problems like obesity could be eliminated.

Spending time with your children as well as family is precious and valuable as compared to the time spent in digging different unimportant apps of the smart phone and making memories is more important than capturing.